In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
Parallel translations
- WEB in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord;
- BSB In Him the whole building is fitted together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord.
- NKJV in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord,
- NASB in whom the whole building, being fitted together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord,
- NLT We are carefully joined together in him, becoming a holy temple for the Lord.
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Quick answer
In Christ the whole building is joined together and grows into a holy temple. It pictures the church as God's living, growing temple.
Overview
Paul develops the building image: 'in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord.' The church is a living, expanding structure, joined and held together by Christ. It is no ordinary building but a 'holy temple,' the dwelling place of God, fulfilling what the Jerusalem temple foreshadowed.
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- 1 Cor 3:16–17Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
- 1 Cor 3:9For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.
- 2 Cor 6:16And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
- Eph 4:13–16Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
- Heb 3:3–4For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house.
- 1 Kgs 6:7And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
- Exod 26:1–37Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work shalt thou make them.
- Ezek 42:12And according to the doors of the chambers that were toward the south was a door in the head of the way, even the way directly before the wall toward the east, as one entereth into them.
- Ps 93:5Thy testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh thine house, O LORD, for ever.
- Ezek 40:1–42In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the selfsame day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and brought me thither.
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